Heredity Vocabulary

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The direct manipulation of an organism's genes

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genetic engineering

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A feature that has different forms in a population

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characteristic

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matching pairs of chromosomes

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homologous chromosome

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A genotype with either BOTH dominant or BOTH recessive alleles.

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purebred

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Expressed as a trait when TWO alleles for that trait are expressed.

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recessive trait